Portsnap and freebsd-update don't work behind transparent proxy?

2007-11-07 Thread Joe S
I have a 2 fresh installs of FreeBSD 6.2 on i386 box and on a vmware host. Both hosts are behind a transparent proxy. Both tools, which use phttp, fail. # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.

Re: freebsd-update fetching files failed

2007-11-12 Thread Joe S
My apologies to the list. Mail.app and Gmail IMAP don't play well together. Apparently every time Mail.app auto saves a draft copy, gmail sends the email. That's bad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

How to apply a patch for Broadcom 5715S

2009-12-16 Thread Joe S
I have the same problem as reported in this bug: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122551 Someone attached a patch to the bug that resolves the problem. I don't know how to apply the patch. Can someone please show me how? ___ freebsd-question

Can't mount existing data disk after upgrade (disklabel gone)

2006-01-20 Thread Joe S
First of all, I have learned something VERY important about FreeBSD. SAVE your DISKLABELS! I have 2 drives in my home file server. One 80GB drive (ad0) for the OS and one 300 GB drive for my data. A few days ago, I performed a clean install of FreeBSD 6.0 on the 1st drive (ad0). After the inst

Re: Can't mount existing data disk after upgrade (disklabel gone)

2006-01-20 Thread Joe S
Joe S wrote: First of all, I have learned something VERY important about FreeBSD. SAVE your DISKLABELS! I have 2 drives in my home file server. One 80GB drive (ad0) for the OS and one 300 GB drive for my data. A few days ago, I performed a clean install of FreeBSD 6.0 on the 1st drive (ad0

Re: Disk errors

2005-10-03 Thread Joe S
Mike Jeays wrote: I am getting one or two of these a day on a Western Digital 80GB disk Most drive manufacturers provide diagnostic tools for the drives they produce. In this case, Western Digital provides a bootable diagnostic tool: * Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD) http://support.

Makefile error: your port uses an old layout

2005-10-03 Thread Joe S
I can't seem to install quite a few apps from ports. I'm running 5.4-RELEASE with security patches installed (via freebsd-update). I update ports with portsnap. I have updated a few times today. Example: # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools # make install clean Makefile error: your port uses

Re: Makefile error: your port uses an old layout

2005-10-03 Thread Joe S
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:20:59PM -0700, Joe S wrote: I can't seem to install quite a few apps from ports. I'm running 5.4-RELEASE with security patches installed (via freebsd-update). I update ports with portsnap. I have updated a few times today. Example:

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-05 Thread Joe S
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the user cannot touch it, a format will not erase it, and Norton Ghost will not find it. 1. Any idea where this info could be stored? 2. Any way

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-06 Thread Joe S
Joe S wrote: Jonathon McKitrick wrote: the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection product that stores info somewhere on the HDD where the user cannot touch it, a format will not erase it, and Norton Ghost will not find it. 1. Any idea where this info could be

Re: Restoring Data from a DD image

2005-10-06 Thread Joe S
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted. Searching around, I found some suggestions to try to rea

Re: Restoring Data from a DD image

2005-10-06 Thread Joe S
Joe S wrote: Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted. Searching

Re: vsftpd watch problem

2005-10-06 Thread Joe S
Yuan Jue wrote: Hi all Here is a pragmatic problem. I used vsftpd to setup a ftp server. And as a result, some guys start to download something from my ftp server. I do want to know the downloader's IP and the speed he/she download from me, just as a status-watching for my notebook. Can any

Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Joe S
huh? On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Rick Nekus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ZFS is but one of many things Sun has given the world over the years, need > I mention NFS,? > ZFS is fairly new all around, and Apple is now attempting to use it in > OSX-Leopard. > zfs will work best on Sun/Sp

Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Joe S
Thanks Dan. That answered my question. I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD. All I have to do is import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands! On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe said: > > I'm current

FreeBSD update warns about 7.0 end of life

2008-12-09 Thread Joe S
When running freebsd-update on FreeBSD 7.0, I noticed this message: WARNING: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: Release schedules

2008-12-12 Thread Joe S
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >> I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer >> any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... >> >> What on earth is going on with release s

Re: Release schedules

2008-12-12 Thread Joe S
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Glen Barber wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: >>> For example, RC2 builds were scheduled for 29 September 2008. When >>> that day comes (or same week perhaps), whoever has the

Constant chaning ahc0: Tranceiver state changing

2004-05-21 Thread Joe S. Joplin
I have a 4.6 Server running SAMBA for a small office. I recently added a second SCSI Hard drive to the ADAPTEC 29160 Controller Card. Now after the machine has been in use for more than a few minutes. The server start repeating the follow lines on the screen. a